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| fleet_size = 722 (mainline only) | destinations = 334 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-and-facts/ )〕 | company_slogan = ''Keep Climbing'' | parent = | headquarters = Atlanta, Georgia, USA | key_people = Richard H. Anderson (Chairman & CEO) Edward Bastian (President) | revenue = |operating_income = US$ 3.400 billion (2013)〔 |net_income = US$ 10.540 billion (2013)〔 |assets = US$ 52.252 billion (2013)〔 |equity = US$ 11.643 billion (2013)〔 |num_employees = 80,000 (2015) |website = (delta.com ) }} Delta Air Lines, Inc. ("Delta"; ) is a major American airline, with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Federal Aviation Administration – Airline Certificate Information – Detail View )〕 The airline along with its subsidiaries operate over 5,400 flights daily and serve an extensive domestic and international network that includes 334 destinations in 64 countries on six continents, as of June 2015. Delta is one of the four founding members of the SkyTeam airline alliance, and operates joint ventures with: Air France-KLM and Alitalia; Virgin Atlantic; and Virgin Australia.〔 Regional service is operated under the brand name Delta Connection. Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date, and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. The company's history can be traced back to ''Huff Daland Dusters'', founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia as a crop dusting operation. The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana and was later renamed ''Delta Air Services'', in reference to the nearby Mississippi Delta region, and commenced passenger services on June 17, 1929. Among predecessors of today's Delta Air Lines, Western Airlines and Northwest Airlines began flying passengers in 1926 and 1927, respectively. In 2013, Delta Air Lines was the world's largest airline in terms of scheduled passengers carried (120.6 million),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Scheduled Passengers Carried )〕 and the second-largest in terms of both revenue passenger-kilometers flown (277.6 billion)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Scheduled Passenger - Kilometres Flown )〕 and capacity (4.4 billion ASM/week; March 2013).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theaviationwriter.com/2013/03/50-biggest-airlines-in-world_24.html )〕 ==History== (詳細はaerial crop dusting operation, on May 30, 1924 in Macon, Georgia. Formed with a Huff-Daland Duster, the first true crop duster, the plane was deployed to combat the boll weevil in 1925. Delta Air Corporation owned the plane (now in the Southern Museum of Flight). The company moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1925. Collett E. Woolman, one of the original directors, purchased the company on September 13, 1928, and renamed it Delta Air Service. It began carrying passengers on June 17, 1929. The single passenger sat in a chair placed in the bin where the pesticide was usually kept.〔Jamil S. Zainaldin of the Georgia Humanities Council, ("Delta Air Lines" ), ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia'' (updated May 31, 2007).〕 Delta grew through the addition of routes and the acquisition of other airlines. They replaced propeller planes with jets in the 1960s and entered international competition to Europe in the 1970s and across the Pacific in the 1980s. The logo of Delta Air Lines, originally unveiled in 1959, is reminiscent of the swept-wing design of the DC-8 airplanes. Often termed as the "widget" logo, the current version consists of two 3D triangles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Delta Air Lines Logo: Design and History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Delta Air Lines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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